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Can Obama Rise Again?

Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics

by Ari Berman

The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism

by Roger D. Hodge


Comedy Central on the Mall

Jon Stewart confirmed that we had all come to the rally in Washington in order to congratulate ourselves on our decency and rationality. We were at a giant preen-in.

A World Cracked Open

By Nightfall

by Michael Cunningham


The Beck of Revelation

Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure

by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

by Glenn Beck, with Joseph Kerry

The Overton Window

by Glenn Beck, with contributions by Kevin Balfe, Emily Bestler, and Jack Henderson

Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance

by Alexander Zaitchik

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

by Dana Milbank


Inside the Trap

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

by Ingrid Betancourt, translated from the French by Alison Anderson, with the collaboration of Sarah Llewellyn

Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes, with Gary Brozek

Captive: 2,147 Days of Terror in the Colombian Jungle

by Clara Rojas, translated from the Spanish by Adriana V. López


Waking Beauty

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

by Jennifer Homans


Artist of Everything

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

by Kurt Schwitters, translated from the German and with an introduction by Jack Zipes, and with illustrations by Irvine Peacock


Unveiling Hidden China

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

by Richard Baum

China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society

by John Naisbitt and Doris Naisbitt

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State

by Yasheng Huang

Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China

by James Fallows

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

by Martin Jacques

The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations

by Christopher A. Ford

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

by Peter Hessler

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George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps

by Barnet Schecter

Washington: A Life

by Ron Chernow


The Poet of Happiness

The Dance Most of All

by Jack Gilbert


The Turkish-German Jihad

The Berlin–Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power

by Sean McMeekin


Tocqueville’s Lesson

Tocqueville's Discovery of America

by Leo Damrosch


Screwball Noir

Sailor and Lula: The Complete Novels

by Barry Gifford


Religious Faith and John Rawls

A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with "On My Religion"

by John Rawls, edied by Thomas Nagel

Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes and the American Political Tradition

by James T. Kloppenberg


The War We’ll Never Understand

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

by Karl Marlantes


Google and Money!

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

by Ken Auletta

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr


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